Field notebooks : Bermuda, 1926-1929
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"If margins not secured, ward only 2 ft long. Lower flower axils of the. 5-4-29 Pandorea jasminoides. Selm. man p 353 BM (C.P) 688. Agri. Stat as long officers, labeled "Tecoma jasmin- oides". Fl 2in long, limb 2½ in across. Cordle white, faintly suffused pink, bright crimson in throat which is bare inside beneath. Very numerous fletened, ovate stam and filices Stamens 4, staminode 1, Stigma 2 lobed. 5-4-29 Flacouria Ramonteli. L'Her. p 248 - F. indica. Mess. BM (C.P) 569. FLV frs. Agri. Stat. Horse-pawn. See 2-19-29, at 4-15-29. labeled "Myrciaria cauliflora. = gaticata" which it cannot be since (see de MVD # -263) M. is of Tamaricaceae which frs capsule v seed headed. Thin almost raceme clusters at axil near ½ from old wood. Only 2 fls col- lected all the tree bears frs. especially finely pubescent. Pedicels ½ in or less, Fl ¼ in high, corollary structure: : Stipals slightly united at base, glabrous outside, finely pubescent inside not esp. ciliate except as this inside pubescence along the edges; disk lobed but not glandular; vary ½ in high ovate, oblong (ie not tapering to point at top) with 5-6 spreading stubby stigmas (no style). Ovary 5-celled with 2 (yoss sometimes more ovules in each cell. These ovules rather oblong in shape at least not suggest- ing the flat this needs to be. : Or see BM (C.P) 5-6 stigma, frs from variously more or less united in groups and only the truncate once tips are the stigmas is perhaps